action research. action research is seeing renewed life. an action research journal and an international journal of action research have both begun in recent years, accompanying a handbook of action research (Reason and bradbury, 2001). Further, a second edition of a popular handbook of collaborative management research has recently been published (shani et al., 2008). this handbook predominantly focuses on types of action research undertaken as collaborative efforts, which may be with large institutions as much as with individual researchers. The contributions in the book, similar to recent writings in action research, are primarily directed within rather than beyond, the realm of OD work.